Myanmar coup
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Myanmar: seven children killed in junta strike on village school
Students were among 13 people killed in the deadliest attack on children since the military coup last yearGove…
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Australian academic pleads not guilty in trial with ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, official says
Sean Turnell was arrested and charged with violating the official secrets act five days after Aung San Suu Kyi…
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Myanmar executions: US presses China to rein in junta, saying it cannot be ‘business as usual’
State department says military government in Yangon has not faced enough economic and diplomatic pressure, ami…
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Myanmar junta executes democracy activists in first such killings in decades
Democracy figures, including former lawmaker in Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, executed after being accused of carr…
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Aung San Suu Kyi moved to solitary confinement, says Myanmar junta
Ousted leader, held at secret location for past year, charged with at least 20 offences and could spend rest o…
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Tourists urged to avoid Myanmar as junta prepares to reopen to world
Travel agents and aid workers raise issues of safety and note that tourism dollars will only benefit the rulin…
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‘Is the world listening?’: the poets challenging Myanmar’s military
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and beyond are using poetry to come to terms with atrocities – and as a form o…
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Myanmar’s first literary work since coup reveals ‘courage and altruism’ of writers
Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring was born from a desire to preserve online expressions of outra…
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Hungry for war: my journey from peaceful poet to revolutionary soldier
Formerly an anti-war poet, Maung Saungkha has endured a harsh training regime to prepare for armed struggle ag…
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Kicking back at the regime: artists open another front in Myanmar war
With the military increasing its use of informants, rappers and artists must keep their identities secret, eve…
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Revolutionary roads: how the army tried to crush Yangon’s most anti-coup district
Hlaing Thayar was at the centre of Myanmar’s protests, but brutal crackdowns and the collapse of the local gar…
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‘My first time holding a gun’: from Myanmar student to revolutionary soldier – a cartoon
Faced with increasing state violence, young people across Myanmar are learning to fight. This is one young wom…
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‘My first time holding a gun’: from Myanmar student to revolutionary soldier – a cartoon
Faced with increasing state violence, young people across Myanmar are learning to fight. This is one young wom…
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Mothers of the Myanmar revolution: ‘I worry about whether he has warm clothes’
Spurred on by military atrocities, young people are turning to armed struggle against the regime – leaving sup…
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Myanmar’s UN envoy under fire for proposing ‘power share’ with military
Pro-democracy groups condemn Noeleen Heyzer’s comments in a TV interview, and maintain the junta is losing its…